Abstract
Porous materials have received significant interest in several fields of emerging research and development. Porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a relatively new and rapidly expanding class of porous materials. MOFs are widely recognized for having a remarkably large surface area and highly flexible capacity due to the variety of ligands and metal nodes that are accessible and that may be tuned and used alternately to confer new desired features. MOFs are explored and employed for various applications such as sensing, catalysis, gas storage, drug delivery, water treatment, corrosion resistance, and so on. Nevertheless, there is scant attention on their performances in anti-corrosive coating applications. Anticorrosive coating is one of the facile strategies in combating the corrosive dissolution of metallic materials from adverse environments and assists in reducing the economic losses owing to the metallic corrosion and the maintenance of the materials. In this chapter, special attention has been given to viewing the exploitation of MOFs for the research and development of thin film anti-corrosive coating applications on metal substrates and attempt has been made to delve deeper into the mechanism of film formation, the exhibition of barrier properties, and corrosion inhibition activities.
